Which issues make workers dust off the resume, update search profiles and keep an empty cardboard box under their desk, waiting for the inevitable moving day?

Which issues make workers dust off the resume, update search profiles and keep an empty cardboard box under their desk, waiting for the inevitable moving day? (Ximagination/Dreamstime.com)

Marco Buscaglia, Tribune Content AgencyCareerBuilder

You probably put up with your share of annoyances at work a few years ago, but as the job market brightened, it's likely that your tolerance for a dead-end job, a long commute or that guy who sits across from you and does that baby-talk thing with his girlfriend all day has decreased.

"The history of the job market has a direct correlation to the history of workplace toleration," says Raj Patel, a workplace consultant in San Jose, California. "The better the job market, the more reasons workers will come up with to leave their current position."

Patel says his own clients have shown a remarkably different tone in recent years. "This isn't an overnight thing. I'd say the shift in attitude occurred around 2011 or 2012," Patel says. "People always want to quit their jobs because of money, but for the past five years or so, people get ready to enter the job market to face new challenges, find a job that has built-in travel or training, or just do something that they think they'll enjoy more than their current job."

Reasons to walk

While it's probably impossible to define and quantify the exact reasons people leave one job for another, it's a pretty good bet that "more money" is always going to be at the top of the list. But what about other reasons? And which issues make workers dust off the resume, update the LinkedIn account and keep an empty cardboard box under their desk, waiting for the inevitable moving day?

We checked with several job seekers on LinkedIn to find out. They had plenty to say, listing reasons that ranged from obvious to surprising. Also, we've identified our disgruntled bunch only by their initials and cities -- they're still working, after all. As J.M. from Hanover Park, Illinois, writes, "I gotta keep this gig until I'm hired. Then I'm outta here like a dog in a yard with an open gate."

"The smell of the carpet at my job makes me sick. It hurts my head. It's been one year since it was installed and it still smells like industrial glue. I have to get out of here."

-- M.V., Philadelphia

"My co-workers are a bunch of vindictive, talentless fools. I can't wait until I can walk out of this place and leave them all to themselves. I've been a peacekeeper around here. They can stay and rip each other to shreds."

-- B.B., Rolling Meadows, Illinois

"How about a clueless boss? I like the job, and she's OK when it comes to time off and raises, but she's just not smart. I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it does. I feel like she makes us all dumber when she starts talking at a meeting. I feel like grabbing my laptop and running out of the room."

-- A.N., Aurora, Colorado

"My job has been very lucrative, so I can't leave unless I find a really great opportunity, but if I did leave, it would be because of my commute, which is 90 minutes each way by car. The office moved out to the far suburbs last year, which is not reachable by train or bus, so I'm sitting in my car for about three hours a day. You can only listen to so many podcasts before you start to go crazy."

-- N.W., Chicago

"I keep reading about student-loan payback benefits, which my company doesn't have, so if I can find that in a job, I'm taking it. I have $36,000 in college debt and I don't want to carry it around forever, so I'd leave my job for a job with a program that helped repay that debt."

-- T.P., Roseville, California

"I work in an awful office park in the wastelands of suburban Chicago. I see all my friends' photos of their buildings downtown -- cool views, open offices, great restaurants and bars -- and I'm stuck here surrounded by parking lots and chain restaurants. I can't take it. It sounds petty but I hate pulling up to this place each day. It's a soul-crushing experience."

-- P.L., Gurnee, Illinois

"I'd switch jobs in a second for more money, but if that can't happen, I'd switch for a better view. I look at train tracks all day. If I'm lucky, a freight train will pass by, but for the most part, it's just tracks."

-- R.T., Lincoln, Nebraska

"A casual dress code. Our boss is old school -- I get it -- but making me wear a tie every day when I literally sit at my desk all day in front of a computer is dumb. I don't need shorts. I'd settle for a golf shirt and khakis."

-- C.I., New York City

"I'd like to bring my dog to the office. I don't know if I'd quit because I can't bring him, but I'd leave here for a place that would welcome my dog. I have alerts set up on all the companies in the area that have dog-friendly policies, so I apply when things open up."